Funeral services for Thomas Roland McIntyre, 75, of Livingston, Texas, will be held Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., in the Central Baptist Church in Livingston, Texas with Lynn Sasser officiating. Interment will follow in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Livingston, Texas. Visitation will be held Wednesday, July 20, 2022, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., in the Cochran Funeral Home Chapel in Livingston, Texas.

Thomas Roland McIntyre was born March 4, 1947 in Washington Township, Alliance, Ohio and passed away July 17, 2022 at his home in Livingston, Texas.

Tom was adopted by A.J. "Buck" McIntyre and Lois McIntyre at the age of 19 months. Growing up Tom travelled the country with his parents and two sisters, as his dad was a pipe-liner. As he got older he learned the trade as well. The McIntyre home was base in Livingston and Coldspring, Texas.

Tom enlisted in the Navy in 1967, and served during the Vietnam War on a ship just offshore of Vietnam. He had planned to make the Navy his career but God had other plans. Due to an eye injury, he was honorably discharged.

After leaving the Navy and recovering from eye surgery, Tom returned to pipelining with his dad. While on a job in New Jersey, he met Pamela and they were married in August of 1969. Their daughter Christine was born in December of 1970, and their son Thomas Andrew was born in November of 1972. With two small children, Tom decided to try and keep the family together in one place and returned to Livingston in December of 1972. At that time, Tom enrolled in Sam Houston and graduated in 1976.

After graduation, Tom went to work for TDCJID and became a food service manager at Polunsky. After years of health issues, he became unable to work in 1998.

Tom was an active member of Central Baptist teaching Sunday school and singing in the choir, when his health allowed. He loved the Lord, his family, history, fishing, old cars, a good game of canasta, or 42, and especially chocolate, cream horns, or anything sweet, and talking politics especially if it was about Donald Trump.

Tom gave his life to Jesus as a child and through the years of illness he clung to his faith. Tom was not afraid to die as he knew where his eternal home was and that was with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Tom is survived by his wife of 52 years, Pamela Rose McIntyre; daughter and son-in-law, Christine and Clay Jackson; son and daughter-in-law, Drew and Sam McIntyre; grandkids, Ciera Campbell and fiancé Montana Mikulec, Nate Campbell, Jon Donham, Jayce McIntyre, Cash McIntyre, Kendall Jackson, and Baily Jackson; great granddaughter, McKenna Mikulec; siblings, Shirley Whatley, Pamela K. McIntyre, Lew Hawkins, James Anderson, George Seymour and wife Nina, Donald Hawkins and wife Teresa, Lou Ann Udrow, Wilma Maxwell and husband Leroy, and Linda Mackey and husband Dan; along with numerous other family members and friends.

Tom is preceded in death by his parents, A.J. and Lois McIntyre; niece, Jana Lynn Whatley; brother-in-law, Houston Whatley; siblings, Pete Hawkins, Charles Hawkins, Clarence Seymour, David Seymour, Betty McKinney, Mary Reece, and numerous aunts, uncles and other family members.

Pallbearers: Clay Jackson, Drew McIntyre, Houston "Bubba" Whatley, Jim Staples, Nate Campbell, Montana Mikulec

Honorary Pallbearers: Joy Sunday School Class, Jon Donham, Jayce McIntyre, Cash McIntyre